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RETHINKING MARXISM: a journal of
economics, culture & society is pleased to announce its 8th
international conference, to be held at the University
of Massachusetts in Amherst on the evening of the 19th through
the 22nd of September 2013.

RETHINKING MARXISM's seven previous international conferences have each
attracted more than 1000 students, scholars, and activists. They have included
keynote addresses and plenary sessions, formal papers, roundtables, workshops,
art exhibitions, screenings, performances, and activist discussions.

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Friday, May 10, 2013

Organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and
Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, and co-sponsored by the Campaign for
the Public University, the Council for the Defence of British Universities, and
UCU at the University of Brighton, this two-day conference on Higher Education
– What it is for, and how to defend it: towards a Charter for Higher Education
in the UK investigates the current changes that British Higher Education (in England
and Wales) is undergoing.

The Convention is designed to enable colleagues from the
full range of university disciplines to address how to preserve a properly
described ‘higher education’ from the effects of current proposals, and from
the redefinition of universities and of higher learning. As a complement to the
Council for the Defence of British Universities and the Campaign for the Public
University, it will consider, and adopt a draft of, a Charter for Higher
Education that the organisers hope will be debated and refined in most or all
institutions of higher learning throughout the UK, and which could then form
the core of values around which colleagues could cohere, whether as members of
Councils and Academic Boards, Faculty or School Boards, as members of their
Course Committees, or as union members.

The Convention has been occasioned by the 25th anniversary
of the Humanities Programme at the University
of Brighton. Born in
adversity in 1988 – in the midst of an earlier assault on the Humanities – it
has survived and thrived by resisting both governmental pressure and temporary
fashions in education and pedagogy. It is an interdisciplinary, non-modular
range of degree courses based on small-group teaching, and research-focused
student development.

In his recent work, Guy Standing has identified a new class
which has emerged from neo-liberal restructuring with, he argues, the
revolutionary potential to change the world: the precariat. This is ‘a
class-in-the-making, internally divided into angry and bitter factions’
consisting of ‘a multitude of insecure people, living bits-and-pieces lives, in
and out of short-term jobs, without a narrative of occupational development,
including millions of frustrated educated youth who do not like what they see
before them, millions of women abused in oppressive labour, growing numbers of criminalised
tagged for life, millions being categorised as “disabled” and migrants in their
hundreds of millions around the world. They are denizens; they have a more
restricted range of social, cultural, political and economic rights than
citizens around them’.

In this issue, we wish to explore the nature, shape and
context of precariat, evaluating the internal consistency and applications of
the concept. Among others, we welcome submissions examining the following
topics in relation to precariat:

- intergenerational
transmission of poverty and the making of the precariat

- Universal
Basic Income

- democracy,
participation and representation

Building upon previous symposia with the likes of Noam
Chomsky, Andrew Linklater and Cynthia Weber, the issue will contain review
symposium with Guy Standing, who will respond to reviews of his
recent The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, and Mark Purcell, who
will respond to reviews of his The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy.

Submission deadlines

Abstracts: May 20th 2013

Full articles of around 8,000 words (solicited on the
basis of review of abstracts): August 18th 2013

Publication: January/February 2014

UK REF Considerations: Papers can appear online as soon
as they are accepted and processed. However, we will be able to accommodate the
wishes of authors to delay publication until the beginning of 2014 because they
wish their papers to be included in the 2014- REF.

Global Discourse is an interdisciplinary,
problem-oriented journal of applied contemporary thought operating at the
intersection of politics, international relations, sociology and social policy.
The journal’s scope is broad, encouraging interrogation of current affairs with
regard to core questions of distributive justice, wellbeing, cultural
diversity, autonomy, sovereignty, security and recognition. Rejecting the
notion that publication is the final stage in the research process, Global
Discourse seeks to foster discussion and debate between often artificially
isolated disciplines and paradigms, with responses to articles encouraged and
conversations continued across issues. The journal features a mix of
full-length articles, each accompanied by one or more replies, shorter essays,
rapid replies, discussion pieces and book review symposia, typically consisting
of three reviews and a reply by the author/s. With an international advisory
editorial board consisting of experienced, highly-cited academics, Global
Discourse welcomes submissions from and on any region. Authors are
encouraged to explore the international dimensions and implications of their
work. With a mix of themed and general issues, symposia are periodically
deployed to examine topics as they emerge.

Michael Oakshott described conservatism as a non-ideological
preference for the familiar, tried, actual, limited, near, sufficient,
convenient and present. Historically, conservatives have been associated with
attempts to sustain social harmony between classes and groups within an
organic, hierarchical order grounded in collective history and cultural values.
Yet, in recent decades, conservatism throughout the English-speaking world has
been associated with radical social and economic policy, often championing
free-market models which substitute the free movement of labour and forms of
competition and social mobility for organic hierarchy and noblesse oblige. The
radical changes associated with such policies call into question the extent to
which contemporary conservatism is conservative, rather than ideological.

This issue of Global Discourse seeks to
explore contemporary conservative political thought with regard to topics such
as the following:

- ‘One
Nation’ politics and Big Society,

- sovereignty,
multiculturalism and international blocs

- paternalism
and negative liberty with regard to narcotics, pornography and education

- regional
and international development

- public
faith, establishment and religious diversity

The issue will include a review symposium with Richard
Hayton, who will respond to reviews of ‘Reconstructing Conservatism? The
Conservative party in opposition, 1997–2010’.

Submission deadlines

Abstracts: October 1st 2013

Full articles of around 8,000 words (solicited on the
basis of review of abstracts): March 1st 2014

Publication: September 2014 – all articles will appear
as online firsts as soon as they are accepted and processed

Global Discourse is an interdisciplinary,
problem-oriented journal of applied contemporary thought operating at the
intersection of politics, international relations, sociology and social policy.
The journal’s scope is broad, encouraging interrogation of current affairs with
regard to core questions of distributive justice, wellbeing, cultural
diversity, autonomy, sovereignty, security and recognition. Rejecting the
notion that publication is the final stage in the research process, Global
Discourse seeks to foster discussion and debate between often artificially
isolated disciplines and paradigms, with responses to articles encouraged and
conversations continued across issues. The journal features a mix of
full-length articles, each accompanied by one or more replies, shorter essays,
rapid replies, discussion pieces and book review symposia, typically consisting
of three reviews and a reply by the author/s. With an international advisory
editorial board consisting of experienced, highly-cited academics,Global
Discourse welcomes submissions from and on any region. Authors are
encouraged to explore the international dimensions and implications of their
work. With a mix of themed and general issues, symposia are periodically deployed
to examine topics as they emerge.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Food riots, anti-war protests, anti-government tirades, anti-blasphemy marches,
anti-austerity demonstrations, anti-authoritarian movements, and
anti-capitalist occupations: the politics of the twenty-first century is marked
by dissent, tumult and calls for radical change. Contemporary political
protests have emerged as a key tool for the expression of dissent, are born of
both the Right and the Left and are staged in both the global North and the
global South. In marked contrast to the triumphalism of neoliberal ideology,
different instantiations of protest all over the world have drawn attention to the
deep fissures that are papered over by the idea of the global market place.
Given the diversity of justice claims and political persuasions that are
expressed in protests today, a key task of political inquiry is to understand
the convergences and divergences between them, and whether these protests are a
precursor of profound global social change. There have been numerous
theoretical engagements with the questions of global social change in recent
years: Hardt and Negri have engaged directly the notion of inherent
crisis in the capitalist system; David Graeber has raised questions about
anarchism, debt and democracy in recent work; neo-Gramscians have enquired into
the role of hegemony in the global political economy, and postcolonial
theorists have explored the enduring legacy of the colonial encounter in the
present.

In this issue of Global Discourse, we wish to explore the nature and context of
protest, seeking to evaluate the notion of links between different protests.
Among others, we welcome submissions examining the following broad topics:

- locations, sites and spaces of protest

- forms of resistance, assembly and protest

- local, national, international and
transnational solidarity in protest

- questions of universality and difference

- development and modernity in protest

Building upon previous symposia with the likes of Noam Chomsky, Andrew
Linklater and Cynthia Weber, the issue will contain review symposium
with David Graeber, who will respond to reviews of his recent The
Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement, andTeivo Teivainen, who
will respond to reviews of his forthcoming Democracy in Movement.

Submission deadlines

Abstracts: May
20th 2013

Full articles of around 8,000 words (solicited on the basis of review of
abstracts): August 18th 2013

Publication: January 2014

UK REF Considerations: Papers can appear online as soon as they are
accepted and processed. However, we will be able to accommodate the wishes of
authors to delay publication until the beginning of 2014 because they wish
their papers to be included in the 2014- REF.

Journal Aims and Scope
Global Discourse is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented journal of applied
contemporary thought operating at the intersection of politics, international
relations, sociology and social policy. The journal’s scope is broad,
encouraging interrogation of current affairs with regard to core questions of
distributive justice, wellbeing, cultural diversity, autonomy, sovereignty,
security and recognition. Rejecting the notion that publication is the final
stage in the research process, Global Discourse seeks to foster discussion and
debate between often artificially isolated disciplines and paradigms, with
responses to articles encouraged and conversations continued across issues. The
journal features a mix of full-length articles, each accompanied by one or more
replies, shorter essays, rapid replies, discussion pieces and book review
symposia, typically consisting of three reviews and a reply by the author/s.
With an international advisory editorial board consisting of experienced,
highly-cited academics, Global Discourse welcomes submissions from and on any
region. Authors are encouraged to explore the international dimensions and
implications of their work. With a mix of themed and general issues, symposia
are periodically deployed to examine topics as they emerge.

About Me

I am a Visiting Fellow in the College of Social Science at the University of Lincoln. I was previously a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Education at Anglia Ruskin University (2014-15). Prior to that, I was previously a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Northampton. My interests are in Marxist educational theory, the future of the human and social time. The Rikowski family web site, The Flow of Ideas can be found at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk,
My Wordpress blog, 'All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski' is at: http://rikowski.wordpress.com,
Glenn Rikowski @ Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
@ ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Glenn_Rikowski